Hurricane Beth

Hurricane Beth, also known as The Fat Beth Ditto in popular culture, was the most intense hurricane in record in the Floresso-Sonrisan basin since Hurricane Michelle in 2014. It formed as a depression on the 12th of April, 2017, out of a tropical wave. It is the second named storm and also the second hurricane of the 2017 Maia hurricane season, after the early and destructive Hurricane Alex in Deltoro.

With an estimated 103 direct or indirect fatalities, it is the deadliest hurricane in the same Floresso-Sonrisan basin since Hurricane Diana in 2010, and the most important storm ever recorded in April. It caused widespread damage in most of countries affected by the storm.

Name
The name given to the hurricane, Beth, associated with the exceptional width of the perturbation, was immediately associated by numberous people to the overweight Prudhommian pop star Beth Ditto. Numberous memes have circuled on the Internet about it, and the hurricane was itself jokingly nicknamed "The Fat Beth Ditto".